Decoration: A,B: ODYSSEUS UNDER RAM ESCAPING FROM THE CAVE OF POLYPHEMOS, NONSENSE INSCRIPTIONS
Last Recorded Collection: Munich, Antikensammlungen: 2148
Previous Collections:
Munich, Antikensammlungen: J26
Publication Record: Chiarini, S., The so-called Nonsense Inscriptions on Ancient Greek Vases, Between Paideia and Paidiá (Leiden, 2018): 84, FIGS.17A-B (COLOUR OF A AND B) Corpus Vasorum Antiquorum: MUNICH, ANTIKENSAMMLUNGEN 10, 44, BEILAGE 7.3, PL.(2747) 26.1-5 View Whole CVA Plates Vierneisel, K., and Kaeser, B. (eds.), Kunst der Schale, Kultur des Trinkens (Munich, 1990): 137, FIG.19.7 (PARTS OF A AND B)
CAVI Lemma: BF lip cup. Unattributed. Third quarter sixth.
CAVI Subject: A, lip: Odysseus on the ram: a Greek under the ram's belly. B: similar.
CAVI Inscriptions: Nonsense: A: lip: above the ram, following its back: ϙεσδεσπεσεσχεσ. Handle
zone: εϙεϙνσεσ(τ),(1) followed by a vacat of 1 1/2 spaces and: εσεσγεσ. B: lip:
above the scene: ϙεα(σ)δεσεσχεσπε (complete){2}. Handle zone:
χε̣[..]ασπεσεσεσ̣[....]ϙεσευχ{3}. Under the foot, Gr.: a four-stroke asterisk,
with two strokes lengthened toward the bottom (facs., CVA, p. 44).
CAVI Footnotes: {1} the last letter read as Ionic gamma by Fellmann, but it is probably a
miswritten tau. {2} a nonsense inscription (as are all the others), since koppa
before an e-sound is inappropriate. However, the first nine letters resemble a
proper name. {3} if this inscription is similar to that on A, the larger missing
part should include a vacat.
